Joshua McKinney is the recipient of the John Ridland Poetry Prize for Sad Animal (Gunpowder Press, 2024). He is the author of four other books of poetry, and his work has appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, New American Writing, and many others. His other awards include The Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize, The Dickinson Prize, The Pavement Saw Chapbook Prize, and a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing. He is co-editor of the online ecopoetics zine, Clade Song.
